The whole toilet paper USA thing is a straight up racist reaction to the SB halftime show so I think it’s pretty fair and not off topic to talk about both. I don’t think anyone watched the fuckin thing though
Turning Point claims that they got somewhere between 5 million and 6 million “concurrent viewers” for their show on YouTube.
Nielsen ratings are not yet out for the Super Bowl, or Bad Bunny’s halftime show, but based on the ratings for last year’s Super Bowl, odds are that it will be somewhere around 125 million.
Well, as this is the place we’re talking about the actual halftime show…
… one of the things I loved about it was the set (and choreography that used it). I know it’s not that many years since we moved from the “band on a stage” era to the “designed for TV and close-up camera work” era, but I think this is the first time that one of these sets was meant to invoke a real location. We had local flora, shops and a home, electric poles, and an outdoor urban location, populated with people of many generations (leaning toward the young and beautiful, of course), on set doing real-life activities- selling food from a cart, playing board games in the park, having a wedding, etc etc.
It was a really interesting picture of community that is dramatically different from anything I’ve seen at a superbowl halftime show. Heck, I might even say that it was, in that sense, one of the most wholesome, ‘conservative’ shows. It was about family, community, solidarity, and pride (I admit I haven’t gone to look up the text to any of the songs, and there may be some dissonance between text and imagery that wasn’t apparent).
It was the musical version of All/White Lives Matter.
You’re so right @Eonwe .
The whole picture the very artistically pleasing set decor was that of community and we all live in one.
Also one of the dance scenes was peppered with dancers in B-W striped-y sweaters.
I’m telling y’all it’s the “In” thing. Get yer striped-y game on!!
I don’t think this has been posted yet. Here is a funny take from someone who watched the TPUSA show
I didn’t see the halftime show (anything related to the Superbowl is anathema to my religion of reformed Dieguismo) but Argentinian and Latin American twitter and bluesky were all aglow about it, the part about a kid sleeping on 2 or 3 chairs during a wedding party seemed specially significant (because it’s a experience almost everybody who was a child in Latin America can relate to). I wonder if it’s unique or you had similar experiences in the U.S. / Canada?
My mother’s side of the family were all late eaters; big family get togethers often saw us not getting to dinner until 8 or 9. It was not uncommon for the younger children to eventually sack out somewhere.
I noticed that it was different. A lot times in the US parties are for Adults, and kids better not be present. The Latino parties in the US are of course the exception.
Also of note, the wedding was “real” that is the two participants had, I think on a lark, asked Bad Bunny to come their wedding, and instead got asked to have their wedding at the super bowl.
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I saw it referred to as Klanchella and that’s what I will think of it as from now on.
Probably not fair to some of those performing. They probably just wanted the exposure since they aren’t well known.
It’s fair, they knew what they were signing up for.
Part of my ex-wife’s family is from Puerto Rico (step family really). All family parties went really late. I’ve also gone on noise complaint calls at 2AM and found out it was a 9 year olds birthday party. The image didn’t surprise me.
It is absolutely fair. This wasn’t a bait-and-switch, they knew exactly what they were signing up for and chose to do it. They didn’t just want exposure, they wanted this exposure and should be judged accordingly.
The Howard Stern effect?
ETA: that’s footage from Private Parts.
I’m from the US and I couldn’t agree more. We just don’t have anything else. I really wish this country had picked a better name at its founding, but 250 years later it’s all we got.
To make things worse, I live in Washington State, which is always being confused with the older Washington, DC. So I live in both a state and a country that chose ambiguous names that cause confusion all the time. It sucks.
Until it is renamed the Trumped Trumps of Trump.
Maybe it’s apocryphal but I read that when they were naming the territory they rejected the name Columbia because they wanted to avoid that exact confusion.
When I am abroad I tell people that I am from California if I am asked.
I was listening, and I didn’t hear Costa Rica (where my brother lives). But I could have missed it. His namecheck was really fast.
I saw Costa Rica on the closed captions.
Here’s the full list. He left out Suriname and the Caribbean nations, although he (maybe?) said Antilles as a catch-all for the islands.